Plutarque - Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque , avec des remarques historiques et critiques - 1724

Collection of 18th century books in good condition illustrated with 66 engravings excluding texts in total, Amsterdam edition (see photos) .
10 beautifully engraved frontispieces + portraits outside the text, epistle to the king, dedication to Messrs. Guillaume Buys and Abrah Lestevenon.
The book contains the lives with portraits in engravings:
(T1) : Theseus - Romulus - Lycurgus - Numa Pompilius - Solon - Publicola.
(T2) : Themistocles - Camillus - Pericles - Fabius maximus - Alcibiades - Coriolanus.
(T3) : Timoleon - Paul Aemilius - Pelopidas - Marcellus -Aristides - Cato the Censor - Philopoemen - Flaminius
(T4) : Pyrrhus - Gaius Marius - Lysander - Sulla - Cimon - Lucullus.
(T5) : Nicias - Marcus Crassus -Sectorius - Eumenes - Agesilaus - Pompey.
(T6) : Alexander- Julius Caesar- Phocion - Cato of Utica.
(T7) : Agis and Cleomenes - Tiberius Cracchus-Demosthenes - Cicero - Demetrius - Antony.
(T8) : Dion - Brutus - Artaxerxes - Aratus - Calba-Otho.
(T9) : Aristippus, Plutarch.
(T10) : Hannibal, Aeneas, Tullus, Hostilius, Aristomenes, Tarquinius the Elder, L. Junius, Brutus, Gelon, Cyrus, Jason.

half-leather bindings, smooth spine ornamented, jaspered edges, title pieces gilded on green morocco, bands, title pages in red and black, engraved banners with plate returns (see photos) .

Paginations: Epistle to the King + Privilege + + LXVIII + Tables +548 +569 +594 +559 +564 +564 +603 +436 +563 +570 pages.

Very nice complete copies in 10/10 volumes.
Rare complete collection with its supplement (volume 10 extremely rare) .

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